Jena

Our child day care center can be found in Jena Ost, in a wonderful,
beautiful and completely sanitized villa. The villa is located in a tranquil
area only a few steps away from the forest. Despite this, we are only 15
minutes walking distance away from the city center and there is a convenient
connection to the city’s public transportation.

Core Concepts

Our pedagogical concept is oriented around the prejudice-aware education
and upbringing and different progressive educational approaches, such as the
situational approach and regional-education, amongst others.

We see the child as an active participant in their own development and
support and look after them carefully during their acquisition of knowledge and
understanding. On our ground floor, the kindergarten aged children work with us
in home groups with a bit of age group mixing and fulfill partially shared jobs and
activities. Thematically decorated rooms, such as a child restaurant, role
playing- and theater playroom with a plateau, that we call the covered box, a
building and construction room with another plateau, a mini-experiment room as
well as a hobby and exercise room.

The upper floor has four large rooms and a roof covered balcony and is
reserved for our younger children.

There are two groups on the upper floor. While the youngest ones live,
learn, laugh and play in an age-homogenous nest, the 2-3 year old children conquer
the world in the world explorers group.

Not far from the university grounds and close to the city center, you
can find the child day care center Landgrafensteig.

The former bar-villa was completely renovated from the ground up in 2001
and was brought up to meet the modern needs of a children’s facility. In a
spaciously laid out garden, the children can let off steam and run wild.

Core Concepts

Our work with the children is strongly centered around prejudice-aware
education and upbringing. We see children as active participants in their own
development and make it our duty to offer the children the time and space they
need in order to support their desire to acquire new knowledge.

Furthermore, the children have the right of making decisions with us in all
of the procedures that make up their daily life, so that they feel as if they
are understood and are being taken seriously. Altogether
we have six home groups on three different floors. For
play time, we work partially share the individual floors, for which we have a
functional area in specific group rooms.

Our children’s facility Seidelhaus can be found within close proximity
of the Institute
of Sport Sciences. You can reach us conveniently with the bus and tram. The house built in
1928 has been used as a children’s facility for the university since 1974. In
1991, the sponsorship went over to the Studentenwerk. At the beginning of 2006,
the complete reconstruction of the house was set in motion and was successfully
completed in April of 2007.

Core Concepts

We see ourselves as a kindergarten of exercise. In 2009, we were
certified as an “exercise-friendly kindergarten” by the State Sport
Association. The layout of the interior space and the garden is in some way connected
to the free development of personality, exercise and especially playing games.
For children starting with the age of 3, functional rooms for a studio,
construction room, role-play room and child restaurant are available. We work
by the situational approach and by the philosophy of the regional-education
system. We trust the children with the responsibility of completing the
necessary steps for their own development through their own actions.

The primary focus of our pedagogical behaviour is based on the needs,
abilities and interests of each individual child through active observances and
supporting the learning process.

Our child day care center can be found at the southern part of Jena at the outskirts of
the Beutenberg Campus.

Core Concepts

Our day care center is conceptually based on the situational approach,
while impulses of the reform pedagogical approach, as well as trainings and
advanced trainings have influenced our work and will be developed further.

The children are cared for in four groups. In two groups on the lower
lever, we work in partially mixed age groups. With the youngest of our world
explorers, we work in two age-homogenous home groups on the upper floor.

The Studierendenwerk Thüringen offers, in cooperation with the university
and the University
of Applied Science Jena,
a flexible day care center on the university campus at Ernst-Abbe-Platz 5.

Student
Parents as well as employees of the Studentenwerk and the universities in Jena
can leave their children (between the ages of 12 weeks – 10 years old) in the
hands of student assistants who have experience in child care for 2-4 hours a
day, and a maximum of 10 hours a week respectively, so that they can attend
seminars or visit lectures, take advantage of open office hours or simply
attend to daily errands. Our open hours on Monday – Thursday from 8 am to 8 pm
and on Friday from 8 am to 2 pm also serve to help make studying and working
with children stress-free. Two big bright rooms, divided into play and nap
areas, as well as a children’s bathroom are available for the children to use.
The employees of “ JUni Children” also organize child day care for special
events, conferences, congresses and weekend seminars.

Booking a
place can be done in blocks (1 block equals 2 hrs). Blocks can also be booked
over a longer period of time. The payment is given in advance, with a
contribution of 4 €/ or 6.50 € per 2 hrs. Booking is possible online
over the FSU Homepage “Family in the University”.